What is the Tomatometer™?

The Tomatometer rating – based on the published opinions of hundreds of film and television critics – is a trusted measurement of movie and TV programming quality for millions of moviegoers. It represents the percentage of professional critic reviews that are positive for a given film or television show.

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Fresh

The Tomatometer is 60% or higher.

Rotten

The Tomatometer is 59% or lower.

Certified Fresh

Movies and TV shows are Certified Fresh with a steady Tomatometer of 75% or higher after a set amount of reviews (80 for wide-release movies, 40 for limited-release movies, 20 for TV shows), including 5 reviews from Top Critics.

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Stephen Silver

Agrees with the Tomatometer 73% of the time.

Stephen Silver's reviews (from any publication) always count toward the Tomatometer because this critic is a Tomatometer-approved critic.

Biography:

Stephen Silver is the Philadelphia-based film critic for EntertainmentTell and has been writing movie reviews regularly since 1996. He is also an editor for Dealerscope and CustomRetailer and Tell magazines, a contributor to Philadelphia Magazine's Philly Post, and his work his appeared on Philly.com, Boston Magazine, New York Press, Patch, the Detroit News, and other outlets. He maintains a blog at SteveSilver.net.more